Fans saw an epic Game of Thrones tussle between Euron (played by Pilou Asbaek) and Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), which resulted in Jaime killing Euron to get to his sister Cersei Lannister.
Euron believes he has killed Jaime and killed off the threat to Cersei’s love, but Jaime recovers and strikes the fatal blow.
However, fans never actually saw him die and in the HBO show this can often mean that person is not actually dead.
Actor Pilou has revealed the importance of not seeing him die to TheWrap: The reason why I didn’t want to die [on screen] is because I thought it would be so much fun to tease [“Game of Thrones” creators Dan “D.B.” Weiss and David Benioff], because of course they wrote the scene as if he would die.
Euron wanted to kill Jaime for the love of Cersei
Pilou Asbaek
So did [episode director Miguel Sapochnik], he wanted to direct it as if he would die. But I didn’t want to do that, because you know sometimes you gotta take a piss at the showrunners. And I was like, ‘What if I don’t die? What if I just smile and look off?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, that’s nice’.”
He also goes on to explain why Euron had to fight Jaime instead of running for freedom: “OK, there’s several reasons. Reason number one is his entire fleet just got burned down by a dragon, that’s pretty devastating for a guy. He’s been swimming several miles in his leather suit, so he’s tired and he doesn’t want to go out on a boat again for a while.
“And he loves the queen, Cersei, and the queen will always be in love with her brother, Jaime
